Named Entity Results, William Ballantyne

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r to all the associations in the Union, inviting them to send delegates to a convention at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association of New York, on the 14th of the following month.
This letter was signed by George H. Stuart, Chairman, John Wanamaker, Corresponding Secretary, James Grant, John W. Sexton, and George Cookman.
The letter met with immediate response, and at the convention George H. Stuart was chosen President, Edward S. Tobey, Vice-President, Cephas Brainard and William Ballantyne, Secretaries.
Messrs. Desmond, Vernon, Wanamaker, Masiurre, Baird, Colyer, and Stuart were appointed on the Business Committee.
Thus was organized the Christian Commission.
John Wanamaker in 1861
One of the wartime merchants who raised many millions for the relief of the soldiers at the front through the Christian commission and other civil agencies Confederate Armies, an invaluable mine of material, heretofore little worked.
His earnest effort has been to be absolutely just a